Dining out used to be considered exceptional; however, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously considered a necessary substitute for an inability to obtain a meal in a family home, dining out has become a popular recreational activity for a majority of the population, offering pleasure as well as refreshment.
Based on a major mixed-methods research project on dining out in England, this book offers a unique comparison of the social differences between London, Bristol and Preston from 1995 to 2015, charting the dynamic relationship between eating in and eating out. Addressing topics such as the changing domestic divisions of labour around food preparation, the variety of culinary experience for different sections of the population, and class differences in taste and the pleasures and satisfactions associated with dining out, the authors explore how the practice has evolved across the three cities.
Cuprins
Part I: Introduction
1 Dining out
2 Method and context
Part II: Familiarisation
3 Patterns of dining out
4 The meaning of eating out
Part III: Informalisation
5 Food at home
6 Domestic hospitality
7 Restaurant performances
8 Organising eating
Part IV: Diversification
9 Regard for variety
10 Aesthetics, enthusiasm and culinary omnivorousness
11 Landscape of variety
Part V: Continuity and change
12 The practice of eating out
13 Explaining continuity and change
Index
Despre autor
Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology and Co-director of the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition at the University of Manchester
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